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Hi,
I'd like to forward the short press release for my book on the anthropology of value, waste, and recycling in India,
Thanks,
Lucy
Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of:
Recycling Indian Clothing
Global Contexts of Reuse and Value
Lucy Norris
In today's globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman's blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy Norris’s anthropological study of the recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments as they are gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts of clothing are used to make and break relationships within middle-class households, but a growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of textile waste. When old clothing is, for instance, bartered for new kitchen utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it may be resold to the poor or remade into new textiles and exported. Norris traces these local and transnational flows through homes and markets as she tells the stories of the people who work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.
Tracking Globalization
256 pp., 16 color illus., 7 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35501-0 $65.00 / £54.00
paper 978-0-253-22208-4 $24.95 / £17.99
For more information, visit:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-22208-4
Instructors in the U.S.:
If you are interested in adopting this book for course use, please see our exam copy policy:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/information.php?info_id=122&meid=122
Instructors in the U.K.:
Visit Combined Academic Publishers website for instructions on how to order exam copies:
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/copies.asp
Dr Lucy Norris
ESRC Senior Research Fellow
'The Waste of the World' programme
Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street
London
WC1H 0BW
U.K.
Homepage: www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/l_norris/index
Project website: www.thewasteoftheworld.org
Guardian Online Gallery:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/may/23/charity.shop.donations?picture=334286231
Lucy Norris
Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street
London
WC1H 0BW
U.K.
*New publication* http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=292787
Homepage: www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/l_norris/index
Project website: www.thewasteoftheworld.org
Guardian Online Gallery:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/may/23/charity.shop.donations?picture=334286231
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